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Well, I Called Bullshit on AI Coding – Here's What 60 Days Taught Me

https://mmwa3650.blogspot.com/2025/08/well-i-called-bullsht-on-ai-coding.html
3•viewer_midoria•2h ago

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viewer_midoria•2h ago
For a very long time, I kept consuming content around vibe coding, AI tools that can help you create full SaaS products in less than 30 seconds, launch your company in less than 2 hours, make you a million dollars in less than a week.

Well, I called bullsh*t! Yet, I still couldn't let go of the FOMO. What if it's actually true? What if I can be a millionaire and the AI products are as good as they say they are? I was stuck in the what-if loop like a Marvel character with endless possibilities and questions in my head.

I did what any self-respecting adult would do: I procrastinated.

Things changed about 2 months ago when I joined a tech company in a product marketing role. Now there was more push to learn about these tools. Do they really work? Can they really make me productive enough to replace the CEO in less than a week? Oh! The imagination ran wild - a marketer with a degree in economics who has not written a single line of code other than `PRINT "Hello World"` in BASIC in the second grade makes CEO, grows the company to a billion dollars in less than 2 months.

Well? That definitely didn't happen, but I completely got the hype around these tools while playing with them for the last 2 months.

This story is about how much hype Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT and their wrappers truly deserve from the perspective of a non-coder who learned everything by figuring stuff out on the go and now runs a team of 12 agents and countless personalized apps while leading marketing at a tech company.

Hunting Russian Drones in a Prop Plane with Shotguns and Rifles

https://www.wsj.com/world/ukraine-russia-drone-hunting-e2fea5fc
1•Stratoscope•1m ago•0 comments

Mattel's M.U.S.C.L.E. Men: A Retrospective (2021)

https://retroramblings.com/2021/07/26/m-u-s-c-l-e-men-toys/
1•1659447091•2m ago•0 comments

Use it or lose it – musings on LLMs

https://www.onoffswitch.net/p/oh-boy-ai
1•seapots•6m ago•0 comments

Meta Has Already Won the Smart Glasses Race

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-has-already-won-the-smart-glasses-race/
1•bookofjoe•7m ago•2 comments

TuneD is a system tuning service for Linux

https://tuned-project.org/
2•tanelpoder•8m ago•0 comments

Anchorage Digital Ventures: The First Institutional Edge for Protocols

https://www.anchorage.com/insights/anchorage-digital-ventures-first-institutional-edge-for-protocols
1•hdbrill•9m ago•1 comments

A Week with Cursor Agent CLI

https://joshtronic.com/2025/08/17/week-cursor-agent-cli/
1•indigodaddy•10m ago•0 comments

Review: Cuisine and Empire, by Rachel Laudan

https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-cuisine-and-empire-by-rachel
1•jger15•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Aulico – AI Agent for Aspiring Investors

https://www.aulico.com/
1•rendernos•16m ago•0 comments

Have LLMs Mastered Geolocation?

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2025/06/06/have-llms-finally-mastered-geolocation/
2•parkaboy•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Aikeedo – Your complete AI workspace (hosted and self-hosted)

https://aikeedo.com/
1•vusalorujov•21m ago•0 comments

China's Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/china-may-have-taken-an-early-lead-in-the-race-for-a-milita...
1•xrayarx•22m ago•0 comments

Trust Spanning Protocol (TSP) Specification

https://trustoverip.github.io/tswg-tsp-specification/
1•als0•22m ago•0 comments

Hundreds lose water source in Colorado's poorest county with no notice

https://coloradosun.com/2025/08/25/costilla-county-water-cutoff/
3•mooreds•22m ago•0 comments

Owls in Towels

https://owlsintowels.org/gallery/
2•ColinWright•25m ago•0 comments

What We Find in the Sewers

https://www.asimov.press/p/sewers
1•mailyk•26m ago•0 comments

Eating meat may protect against cancer, landmark research shows

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250825015640.htm
3•FollowingTheDao•27m ago•2 comments

xAI dropped its benefit corp status while Musk was fighting OpenAI

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/elon-musk-xai-dropped-public-benefit-corp-status-while-fighting-o...
2•abduhl•28m ago•1 comments

Cirrus Logic – By Bradford Morgan White – Abort Retry Fail

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/cirrus-logic
1•rbanffy•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Encyfr – post-quantum encryption for all

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/encyfr/id6478423739
1•theyoungsir•29m ago•0 comments

Burning Man festival hit by fierce dust storm

https://www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/article/burning-man-dust-storm-20994950.php
2•xrayarx•29m ago•0 comments

Tiny gemma3 270M implementation in R

https://github.com/mlverse/minhub/blob/main/R/gemma3.R
1•dfalbel•29m ago•0 comments

As a musician, digital artist, and AI dev, I feel bipolar reading this.

https://www.freethink.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-entertainment-industry
1•ieuanking•30m ago•1 comments

Minimal Version Selection Revisited

https://matklad.github.io/2024/12/24/minimal-version-selection-revisited.html
1•fanf2•30m ago•0 comments

Vtenext 25.02: A three-way path to RCE

https://blog.sicuranext.com/vtenext-25-02-a-three-way-path-to-rce/
1•f311a•32m ago•0 comments

OAuth Scopes: A Guide to Secure Third-Party Access

https://fusionauth.io/blog/how-to-design-oauth-scopes
3•mooreds•33m ago•0 comments

Video Exposes How Old Racing Games Cheated

https://www.thedrive.com/news/this-video-exposes-how-old-racing-games-cheated
1•PaulHoule•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Citation Needed

https://citation-needed.org/
1•pors•35m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Teach Myself Algorithmic Trading?

1•romesmoke•36m ago•0 comments

Multimodal LLMs Are Blind

https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/blind_llms/
1•brilee•37m ago•0 comments